MOKO JUMBIE

Post-screening Skype Q&A with Filmmaker Vashti Anderson! Doors at 7:00 | Film at 7:30 | Co-presented with FINAL GIRLS

DIR Vashti Anderson | Trinidad & Tobago | 2017 | 90 min

Searching for her roots, Asha returns to her family’s home on a rural coconut plantation in Trinidad. Despite racial taboos, her aunt’s admonitions, political turmoil and mysterious hauntings from ancestral spirits, Asha embarks on a forbidden relationship with Roger, a young fisherman who shares her desire to look beyond the physical world. With strong performances and a sense of wonder that blurs the lines between real and fantastic, superstition and truth, living and dead, Vashti Anderson’s directorial debut is a love letter to the rich culture of a changing Trinidad. (Note courtesy LA Film Festival)